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ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS, 
PLAN AND PROSPECTS. 
PROGRESS OF THE WORK 
REPRESENTATIVE MEN SELECTED 
APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. 
APPENDIX. 




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ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN. 

The National Lincoln Monument Association is a voluntary body 
of citizens, organized, with the national approval, to consummate 
the admitted wishes of the people of America by erecting a vast 
Monument in eternal memory of Abraham Lincoln and his chief 
coadjutors. 

No one can deny the fitness and importance of such a Monument. 
It is essential to the gratitude and sorrow, the dignity and glory of 
the American people; and the neglect to build it would complete 
the proof of the oft-repeated charge, "the ingratitude of Re- 
publics." 

At the time of President Lincon's death, it seemed that the en- 
thusiasm which then pervaded the land would soon cause all our 
chief cities to bristle with monumental shafts to his exalted worth 
and endeared memory. But this outburst of admiration and grati- 
tude has well-nigh passed with the occasion of its birth. 

This enterprise has been chartered by act of the Congress of the 
United States, and has its especial sanction. 

Witness the liberal donation of over one hundred thousand dol- 
lars in the shape of captured cannon and metal of which to make 
the bronze figures for the Monument. At the same time it is grati- 
fying to know that it has the cordial approval and co-oj^eration of 
every other Department of the Government. 

With Senator Harlan as President ; Hon. John F. Driggs as 
Vice-President ; the incorruptible General Spinner, of the Treasury 
Department, for Treasurer ; and the energetic Jas. M. Edmunds, 
so well known as Commissioner of Public Lands, for Secretary, the 
Association possesses a corps of ofiicers whose strongly-developed 
Americanism, and whose bold confidence in the glorious future of 
the coantry, unites in an unusual degree the elements of success, 
and around which the patriotism of the whole country may confi- 
dingly rally. 



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Tlie Monument, when completed, will not only be the most elab- 
orate in the world, but the proudest ever reared. No other Nation 
ever achieved such a triumph — no other people ever had such a 
history to commemorate — and it is the purpose of the Association 
to erect a Monument worthy of such a triumph, commensurate with 
such a history. 

The managers have adopted for the Monument the design of 
Clark Mills, the American sculptor, whose genius as an artist — • 
when posterity shall sit in judgment — will take rank Avith Phidias 
and Praxiteles, and will make him the compeer of Franklin, Morse, 
and Fulton. Speaking of him on the occasion of the inauguration 
of his first equestrian statue, Hon. Stephen A. Douglass said: 
" Clark Mills never studied nor copied — he never saw an equestrian 
statue nor a model of one — but proudly may we compare with any 
in Europe that noble figure, which preserves the form and features 
of our hero, and that colossal war-horse in bronze, which will bear 
him in glory through future ages." 

The JNlonument is to be located in Washington, on the public 
ground near the Capitol. The pedestal will be of granite, and the 
fio^ures of bronze. The whole structure will be seventy feet in 
heio-ht, of a triangular form, with truncated angles. Crowning the 
main column is a colossal statue of Abraham Lincoln, represented 
in the act of signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Six eques- 
trian statues of the Chief Generals, whose valor contributed to the 
preservation of the Union, will be poised on bastions thrown out 
from the base of the angles. These have been selected, namely : 
Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Howard, and Wadsworth. 

On the second section, grouped about the middle of the Monu- 
ment, are twenty-one colossal statues of statesmen, philanthropists, 
and civilians who stood by Lincoln through the dark days of the 
rebellion. Among these the War Minister Stanton, the strong right 
arm of the President during his entire administration ; W. H, 
Seward, who, throughout that critical period, saved the country 
from foreign intervention, and maintained peac^ with all Nations ; 
and Salmon P. Chase, whose rare financial ability created a cur- 
rency, and sustained the country's credit through all the trying 
years of the rebellion. 

The Christian Commission will be represented in the person of 
George H. Stewart, its chairman, and the Sanitary Commission iu 



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the person of Di. Bellows, President of the Eastern Commission, 
and J. E. Yateraan, President of the Western. These followed our 
brave defenders into the field, the camp, and the hospital, carried 
to the bedside substantial evidence of the love and gratitude of the 
conutry, and thus restored to the ranks thousands of courageous 
soldiers, imparting to the army and Nation, in the shape of mate- 
rial charity, the priceless wealth of moral power. 

The loyal pulpit will be represented by those distinguished and 
patriotic divines, Bishop Simpson and Henry Ward Beecher, whose 
spirit-stirring apjoeals rang through the land and stirred the inhabi- 
tants to deeds of heroic valor. 

On the third section there will be three historical figures, one at 
each corner of the Monument, the first representing the American 
Private Soldier — his country's boast, his country's trust — the second 
representing the noble part performed by woman under the figure 
of Amei'ica caring for her disabled soldiers, and the third the Libe- 
rated Slave, who, under the influence of our American progressive- 
ism, stands forth not only freed, but cultured. 

On the fourth section there will be three Allegorical figures rep- 
resenting the great principles embodied in the American Cionstitu- 
tion — Justice, Liberty, and Equality — ministering to the crowning 
figure the great embodyment of them all — -the noble martyr, Liu^ 
coin. 

The Monument will present three scenes in basso relievo^ The 
first representing the firing on Fort Sumter, the second the Surren- 
der of General Lee, and the third, the Congress amending the Con- 
stitution, abolishing slavery, and establishing civil rights. 

Thus it will be seen that, while the most elaborate Monument in 
Europe is forty-five feet in height, has four equestrian life-size 
statues, and but one colossal figure, the " National Lincoln Monu- 
ment'^ is to be 70 feet in height, with six equestrian and thirty-one 
pedestrian statues of colossal size, the least nine feet in height, while 
the figure of Lincoln, though in a sitting posture, measures full 
twelve feet. 

This Monument, thus surpassing all the Monuments of the world. 
in its vast proportions and grandeur, is designed to be an enduring 
memorial of the times and events which gave lustre to the admin- 
istration of the martyred Lincoln, transmitting from generation to 
generation, the history of the men who bore a conspicuous part, in 



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the Cabinet — in the field — in the national councils, and in all other 
stations official or otherwise — an eternal Sentinel, guarding the era 
of emancipation — an immortal Herald proclaiming to all the races 
of men, the nation's great civil and moral reforms — slavery blotted 
out from all her codes, and equal civil rights imbedded in her 
Constitution. In a word, a blendid bronze and granite portraiture 
of the final triumph of liberty and equality on American soil. 

This Monument is not sectional, but is for the whole nation, 
and for all time, putting to record in enduring granite and imper- 
ishable bronze the great events in the great struggle for the na- 
tional life, and representing the Union in the person of her promi- 
nent and patriotic citizens. 

Here we behold the embodiment of the true ideas of justice, lib- 
erty, and equality. The sublime principles which underlie and per- 
vade our American system, and to destroy which, the late rebellion 
culminated, and the assassin's hand was steeped in the blood of the 
martyr Lincoln. 

Here, on American soil, this holy sisterhood first, in the history 
of our race, achieved their completest triumph and vindicated their 
celestial birth, and there on the grandest of earth's Monuments, the 
glorious group shall stand coronated with laurels won from all the 
ages. 

It may here be stated that ihh Monument was projected previ- 
ous to Presidont Lincoln's death, and that he expressed himself 
much pleased with it and directed that the drawing be shown to 
the Secretary of State. " That he had traveled over Europe and 
was a judge of art." 

After examining the plan, Mr. Seward said : " I have seen the 
principal Monuments in Europe, and I recollect nothing so rich 
and grand as that would be if carried out. In fact, Europe could 
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Synopsis of Proceedings of the Association. 



This Association was incorporated by act of Congress of date 
March 30, 1867. 

In pursuance of the law of incorporation, the Trustees named 
in the act met in the District of Columbia, Senate Committee-room, 
on the evening of the same day, to wit, March 80, 1867, and 
organized. 

At this their first meeting a Board of Managers was appointed, 
executive officers chosen, by-laws ordained, and resolutions expres- 
sive of the objects and promotive of the interests of the organiza- 
tion were adopted. 

The By-Laws provide for annual meetings of the Association, to 
be held in the City of Washington, on the second Wednesday of 
January, and for special meetings at the call of the President. 

The first special meeting of the Board of Managers was held 
July 13, 1867. 

At this meeting the following resolutions were adopted ; after 
which the meeting adjourned to the 16th : 

1st. An appeal to the people of the United States for funds to 
carry out the objects of the Association. 

2d. An application to Congress for captured ordnance, from 
which to construct the bronze figures of the Monument. 

3d. An appeal to the loyal newspapers of the country to lay 
before their million readers the proceedings of the Association, and 
to aid with their powerful voice this enterprise, so national in pur- 
pose, so glorious in accomplishment — a Monument commemorative 
of slavery extirpated from American soil— of universal liberty 
achieved — of the whole American people redeemed ! 

The adjourned meeting of the 16th had under consideration the 
model of the proposed Monument presented by Clark Mills, Esq., 
and adjourned without definite action thereon. 

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS. 

In accordance with the rule of the Association appointing the 
second Wednesday of January in each year for the annual meeting 



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of tlie same, the Board of Managers assembled at the Senate Com- 
mittee-room of the District of Columbia, January 8, 1868. 

At this meeting the Secretary made his report, accompanied Avith 
a statement ot the progress and prospects of the Association. The 
report and statement were, on motion, accepted, approved, and or- 
dered to be placed on the files of the Association. 

From this report it appears that the necessary expenses of or- 
ganization, printing, &c., were defrayed by contributions from the 
Managers, and by subscription of members of the Senate and 
House of Representatives; that there were distributed to National 
Banks and postmasters, and other persons, 1,925 subscription books 
and that forty thousand of these books, in addition to the first 
issue of ten thousand, will be needed to reach effectively all the 
channels of communication with the people which have been desi- 
nated by the Board of Managers. ** 

The officers, after careful consideration, appointed one traveling 
agent— W. 11. Corkhill, of Iowa— who, it was believed, would be 
able not only to take up considerable subscriptions, but would also 
by passing from State to State, give system and animation to all 
the other constituted agencies. 

THE PROSPECTS THEN. 

The manifestations favorable to complete success which may be 
mentioned are — 

1st. The strong encouragement tendered from the very large 
number of persons who have been seen and conversed with on the 
subject. 

2d. The plan adopted will reach so large a portion of the Amer- 
ican people that, though the individual contributions be small the 
aggregate added to the Freedmen's Fund will be ample for the con- 
etruetion of the main shaft of the Monument, the crowning ficrure 
of Abraham Lincoln, and all of the allegorical representations. 

M. Encouragement, that citizens of wealth and prominence, hold- 
ing relations of personal friendship with the men to be represented 
in the Monument, and having intimate knowledge of the great 
work performed by them respectively, have indicated a willingness 
and desire to contribute to the construction of the principal fig- 
ures. Such contributions, added to the donation of metal by the 
Government, will ensure the completion of this portion of the work. 

4th. It is not doubted that a large majority of the adult population 



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of the United States desire to contribute to the proposed Monument 
and will do so, if opportunity be offered through a channel in wliich 
confidence can be placed; and it is reasonably certain that the plan 
adopted by the Board for laying the subject before the public, and 
in the selection of agents holding official relations to the Govern- 
mcnt, and the people, will inspire that confidence. 

6th. It is believed that the steady systematic prosecution of the 
work as commenced, will place the enterprize beyond contingency, 
and enable the Association to decide upon, and commence the erec- 
tion of a Monument, which will fully meet the expectations of the 
American people, and will be a truthful exponent of the most 
memorable event, which a nation's history unfolds or the world's 
annals record, — to wit: "The eatsihlishmeai of national unity , based 
on universal liberty." 

A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD, HELD IN THE SENATE COMMIT- 
TEE ROOM, FEBRUARY 11, 1868. 

At this meeting the design for the National Lincoln Monument, 
by Clark Mills, Esq., was, in its general features, adopted, the de- 
tails to remain subject to the Board of managers, to be decided upon 
from time to time, as the Board may deem advisable. 

It was also decided that Abraham Lincoln should be the crown- 
ing figure on the Monument, and that there should be equestrian 
statues of Generals Graat, Sherman and Wadsworth. 

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS, JULY 8, 1868. 

At this meeting a resolution was adopted setting forth the National 
character of the Lincoln Monument Association, and urging all 
local Associations, having a similar object in view, to unite in a 
common effort to carry out this one great design. And especially, 
to solicit the co-operation of the "Freedmen's Memorial Monument 
Association" of St. Louis in fui*thering the objects of this Associa- 
tion. 

The Board also adopted a resolution adding to the equestrian 
statues already ordered that of General O. O. Howard, ana the 
following pedestrian statues : Chase, Stanton, Seward, Beecher, 
Simpson, Stewart, Bellows, Yateraan, S. A. Douglas, and F. Doug- 
lass. The last as the representative of the liberated race. 



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SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD. 

Jan. 13, 1869. — The Board of ]\Ianagers convened, and, without 
action, adjourned over to January 21, 1869. 

Jan. 21. — The Association met pursuant to adjournment, and 
the report of the officers and General Agent were presented and 
ordered to be placed on file. The Secretary read a letter from Hon. 
James E. Yateman in relation to the Freedmen's Monument Fund. 
Adjourned to meet on the 23d instant. 

Jan. 23. — The Association met pursuant to adjournment. The 
Board of Managers and officers were reappointed, and a resolution 
that the officers of the Association shall be ex-officio members and 
officers of the Board of Managers was adopted. 

The General Agent reported that the models of the statues of E. 
M. Stanton and Bishop Simpson had been completed, and that the 
artist was ready to proceed with the construction of other models, 
under the direction of the Association ; whereupon, a resolution w^as 
adopted, that it was deemed expedient to continue the construction 
of models as fast as the requisite amount for each statue is pledged 
by responsible parties, and one-third of said amount paid into the 
treasury of the Association. 

On motion, it was resolved that an equestrian statue of General 
G. H. Thomas be placed on the Monument ; also a 2^edestrian 
statue of the late Thaddeus Stevens ; also the figure of a Private 
Soldier; and that the work of woman be represented in the Monu- 
ment by the statue of America caring for her disabled soldiers. 

On motion, it Avas further resolved, that such of the National 
Banks as have not contributed to the Monument be especially re- 
quested to appoint an efficient agent, who will, for thirty days after 
the receipt of this resolution, receive donations from those doing 
business with the banks, and transmit collections to the Treasurer 
of the Association. 

SECOND annual REPORT. 

The report read at this meeting in relation to the Society's work 
is substantially as follows : 

1st. Twenty-two thousand subscription books have been placed in 
the hands of postmasters in the States of California, Nevada, Ore- 
gon, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, Indi- 
ana, Ohio, New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 



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Connecticut, and Michigan, and in the Territories of Colorado, 
New Mexico, Arizona, Dacota, Montana, and Idaho ; also of all 
registers and receivers of United States Land Offices, collectors 
and assessors of Internal Revenue, Governors of States and Terri- 
tories, the presidents of each of the National Banks, the presiding 
officers of the Legislatures of each State and Territory which has 
assembled since November 1, 1808, agents of Freed men's Bureau, 
and some unofficial jiersons. 

2d. The circulation of 2.1,000 copies of the National Lincoln Mon- 
ument Paper, a small monthly, issued chiefly for the purpose of ad- 
vertising the Monument, acknowledging contributions thereto, and, 
by a monthly exhibit of the progress of the work, awakening an 
interest therein. 

3d. The prompt transmission of premiums to those entitled, and 
the grateful acknowledgment of all contributions sent. 

REPORT or THE GENERAL AGENT. 

The practical realized results of the labor of the General Agent 
are seen in the collections of the Special Funds, as stated in the 
Appendix. But the advantages to be expected from this agency 
will be better appreciated by the following brief synopsis of his 
report to the Board of Managers : 

SYNOPSIS OF REPORT. 

]\Ir. Corkhill states that he has had full consultation with the 
officers and managers of the National Memorial Monument Asso- 
ciation, who are desirous of, and have agreed to combine their 
funds with ours, upon the condition that said funds shall bo applied 
to the construction of the upper section of the Monument, to wit : 
the statue of Abraham Lincoln and the surrounding allegorical 
figures, and to be designated as the Freedmen's portion of the 
Monument. This proposition has been acceeded to by this Asso- 
ciation, and the President, Hon. James Harlan, has been fully au- 
thorized and requested to complete the negotiation for the transfer 
of the funds, by which about $20,000 — a sum sufficient or nearly 
so to complete said section — will be realized. 

SPECIAL FUNDS. 

The cost of an equestrian statue, exclusive of the metal which is 
furnished by the Government, is $12,000, and of a pedestrian statue, 
$6,000. 



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The special friends of the following-named persons to be repre- 
sented in the Monument have been consulted by the General Agent, 
and he has, in each instance, received assurance from responsible 
sources that the requisite amounts, to complete the figures respec- 
tively, Will be promptly contributed when required for use, to-wit: 

U. S. Grant, equestrian ; Wm. T. Sherman, equestrian; O. O. 
Howard, equestrian ; Edwin M. Stanton, pedestrian ; Salmon P. 
Chase, pedestrian; Matthew Simpson, pedestrian; Henry Ward 
Beecher, pedestrian ; H. W. Bellows, pedestrian; James E. Yate- 
man, pedestrian ; George H. Stuart, pedestrian. 

No special efibrt has yet been made in behalf of the ot,her figures 
selected for the Monument, but there is every reason to believe that 
these can be provided for in like manner, it being competent under 
regulation of the Association for each contributor to designate the 
fund to which his contribution shall be applied, and a special fund 
being set apart under the name of each statue. 

THE WORK OF WOMAN. 

The Ladies' Union Aid Society, of St. Louis, earnestly recom- 
mended that the work of woman in support of the national cause 
should be represented in the Monument. And in response to this 
most reasonable request of the noble women of America, who by 
their self-denying devotion to the Union cause, contributed so ma- 
terially to alleviate the sufferings of the sick and wounded soldiers, 
and so much to the moral power of the Nation, the Board has 
adopted a colossal bronze statue of America caring for her disabled 
soldiers. 

SOURCES OF REVENUE AND WORK TO BE DONE. 

The donation by the Government of m^^tal sufficient to complete 
the whole of the figures, together with the collections on the special 
funds, will contribute much to defray the principal cost of the 
Monument, leaving the granite foundations and column, with the 
current expenses, to be paid from the general fund. 

For this fund we rely upon general collections from the whole 
people. The field as yet unoccupied consists of the Southern States, 
the officers of the army and navy, the churches, literary organiza- 
tions, municipal and railroad corporations, the Posts of the Grand 
Army, and all similar organizations throughout the country. 

The premiums offered give efl'ective aid to collections, and induce 



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new efforts in the various localities where they are distributed. It 
is deemed advisable that a special appeal be made to such of the 
National Banks as have hitherto failed to contribute. A few of 
these Banks have responded liberally. 

To give additional vigor to the work and increased interest in its 
progress, there must be a larger correspondence, the distribution of 
more premiums, and the publication and circulation of a large 
monthly edition of the Monument Paper. These measures, together 
with the active work of the general agent, will, it is believed, awaken 
.a more general interest and ensure a more satisfactory progress. 

UNION AND ENERGY WILL SECURE SUCCESS. 

But in order to early and complete success there must be thought 
and action, persistent and untiring. In short, the consummation of 
this great work is a question to be determined on a practical busi- 
ness basis simply, the putting forth effort, equal to the grand result 
to be attained. 

Since the last report there are three other models completed, 
making five now ready to be cast in bronze, and the attention of the 
Board is especially invited to the policy of proceeding with these 
models as repidly as the special funds will warrant, and whenever 
the entire amount for any particular statue shall Jiave been paid in, 
to have it completed in bronze and located in some conspicuous 
place in this city until the Monument be ready for its reception, 

DONATION BY THE GOVERNMENT. 

It is aground of especial encouragement, and calculated to in- 
spire confidence in the public mind, that there is no longer any ob- 
stacle to the completion of the statues as they are modeled, since 
Congress has, by act passed July 15th, 1870, authorized the Secre- 
tary of War to furnish to the Association the bronze, from time to 
time, as it may be needed thus altogether removing the previous 
restriction ; and nothing now remains in the way of complete suc- 
cess, but the timely, vigorous, united effort of all the agencies that 
have been brought into requisition for the construction of this great- 
est and grandest of earth's Monuments. 

THE REPRESENTATIVE MEN SELECTED. 

Of the distinguished agencies to be represented on the Monument 
we may say, in a word, that they were all indispensable, and each 



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contributed that wliich was of inestimable value to the grand 
result to be commemorated. 

It were needless to recount the part performed by the great 
trio in the Cabinet ; on whom devolved such momentous respon- 
sibilities in the conduct of the war. Their deeds are before the 
world. These attest, stronger than any words, their eminent fitness 
for the position to which Lincoln's intuition had assigned them. 

Fort Sumpter has been fired on, and the great rebellion stands 
revealed, based on the bold idea — "cotton is king," "whose potent 
arm sways England's commerce." That arm must be severed — « 
Southern ports must be closed. » 

The country needs a master spirit, skilled in diplomacy, who will 
understand to deal with England's ministry, and hold her hands 
until our preparedness shall teach her to acquiesce in a blockade 
which may stir up in her own streets a war for bread. Lives there 
a man gifted with powers equal to such a task? Lincoln's intui- 
tion has discerned him, and William H. Seward's diplomatic skill 
bids England hold — till he has circumscribed her commerce. No 
wonder that the superhuman task, performed by such a man, should 
have stirred the assassin's heart to mete to him a fate akin to that 
which doomed the life of Lincoln. 

But the rebellion assumes a magnitude scarce dreamed of at the 
first. This is a gigantic struggle. The sinews of war must be sup- 
plied. Where is the mind equal to the emergency ? Lincoln has 
divined it. Being unable to borrow, Salmon P. Chase declares, 
" To crush out this rebellion money must be had, or money shall be 
made." We'll create a currency. Congress will legalize it, and 
the Government will reckon in the number of the disloyal him who 
dares discredit it. Hence the origin of greenbacks, now so nearly 
on a par with gold. 

But Congress, the war power of the Government, is not a unit. 
Her province is deliberation, not execution. There is needed a 
heart and head, stern, vigilant, and capable of instant decision and 
action. Where shall we find the man for the crisis ? Lincoln has 
already found him. Hear his discription of him — "I can go to 
sleep at night, and know where to find Stanton in the morning." 

Edwin M. Stanton discovers resources equal to the great occa- 
sion, and proves the guiding-spirit through all the fearful storm of 
a rebellion which has no parallel in history. 



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Of these three illustrious statesmen it may be said : Theirs is 
their country's history — no Monument can more emblazon it. A 
nation's gratitude will assign to each of these a place near to the 
much-loved Lincoln. 

CHRISTIAN AND SANITARY COMMISSION. 

But Christian philanthrophy finds war's battle-field a theater for 
the exhibition of her deeds of love. 

The private soldier, endeared to his country by danger defied, and 
toil and watching and hunger endured in her cause, has fallen 
bleeding, and needs more care than the country in her sore conflict 
can bestow. The volunteer, the Union's brave, who fell into rank 
at the call of freedom, to save the Nation's life, has yielded up his 
own, and as that life is ebbing fast away he needs the solace which 
religion gives, a voice to whisper to him of the better land. 

In those beautiful charities, the Christian and Sanitary Commis- 
sions, these wants are generously supplied. The sick and wounded 
are cared for, every form of suffering alleviated, and a voice, gentle 
as a mother's, whispers in the dying soldier's ears the sweet prom- 
ises of Heaven. 

How many a soldier owes his life to the timely interposition of 
these Christian charities, and how will he exult when he learns 
that the benefactors who originated those blessed agencies — Stewart, 
Bellows, and Yateman, will have a place on the Monument beside 
the Nation's Lincoln. 

THE LOYAL PULPIT. 

Amid the din of arms, the pulpit's voice is heard pleading, in 
Heaven's name, the cause of freedom. Impatient of delay it chides 
with Lincoln's self and urges him, in liberty's sacred name, and in 
his country's majesty and might, to rise and strike the monster sla- 
very down. 

Among the many loyal voices whose was more distinctly heard 
than Simpson's? Whose thrilled the Nation's heart with more 
electric fire than Henry Ward Beecher's ? These truly represent a 
" Loyal Pulpit." These worthily shall take their stand upon the 
Nation's Monument. 

U. S. GRANT. 

A startling rebellion is stalking through the land astonishing the 



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world by its magnitude, and appalling the race with its avowed 
purpose to rivet and extend slavery. 

This rebellion, at first regarded as so insignificant that it could 
be trampled down in three months, has grown into giant propor- 
tions through three years, and the seventy-five thousand volunteer 
corps — deemed sufficient to strangle it — enlarged to armies number- 
ing more than half a million, are now in deadly conflict with the 
herculean foe, emboldened by our frequent reverses. 

The disasters of the first and second Bull Run, of Chickahominy 
and Chickamauga, of Harper's Ferry surrendered and Washington 
threatened, have at length stirred the Nation's heart, and opened 
the Nation's eyes to the reality and extent of the great struggle for 
the Nation's life. 

But wisdom in the Cabinet is impotent, without generalship in 
the field. For what avails wise legislation, prudent counsels, and 
far-reaching statesmanship without corresponding generalship ? 

The country in its dark hour of greatest peril and trial casts 
about for a soldier whose genius has been aroused to energy by the 
triumphant spirit of liberty, which throbs in the great heart of our 
American continent — whose boldness leaps the rubrics of military 
science, and whose intuitions heed not the formula of tactics — whose 
heroic bravery is an earnest that all possibilities will be conquered 
— whose wise prudence is a guaranty that impossibilities will not 
be attempted — whose sleepless vigilance is an all-pervading pres- 
ence — whose provident forecast will anticipate the soldier's need — 
whose unvarying kindness will win the soldier's heart, and whose 
simple faith in the issue of the pending conflict is an assurance in 
the breast of the entire command of a glorious victory. 

But where shall we find the union of such distinguished endow- 
ments, so essential to great achievements and triumphant success ? 
Belmont, Henry, Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, and Chat- 
tanooga have penned his shining record and illustrated his soldierly 
qualities, and pointed out unmistakably the man in the person of 
the quiet, unostentatious, U. S. Grant. 

Introduced to his country by his deeds of heroic valor, she turns 
to him her great loving heart, bestows upon him her fullest confi- 
dence, exalts him to the command of all her armies, and invests 
him with almost dictatorial powers. 

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conduct of the war, he shows himself equal to his higher responsi- 
bilities and more enlarged command by his all-comprehensive plan 
of the grand final campaign, embracing the entire area of the Con- 
federacy, and concerting the movement of all the armies under one 
policv, a plan developing stratagy which compels the rebellion to 
gather up its great life into its chief citadel, and then with inextri- 
cable folds and ever contracting coil, crushes all that life away. 
In a word, " fights out the great battle on the one line," secures the 
capture of Richmond and the surrender of Lee, and places before 
the world Gen. U. S. Grant as the noble compeer of any General 
of any age. 

SHERMAN. 

But the rebellion's heart exults with confidence in his secure 
mountain fastnesses, and in his inaccessible and interminable sea 
coasts. The country needs a soldier whose far-reaching out-look 
takes in the entire field of operations — whose electric genius strikes 
from him the shackles of the schools — whose mind is rapid in con- 
ception, calm in execution, and boundless in resources — whose pa- 
triotism is a living-inspiring principle — whose peerless honor and 
unselfish nature is an abiding trust, and whose strategy can fetter 
the rebellion's huge body, while the deadly blow is struck at his 
great head. 

And has not the counsel — which spread out this glorious land, 
which piled our snow-clad mountains, dug our Lake Superiors, and 
poured our Father of Waters, designed that this — earth's grandest 
theatre shall be radiant, too, with earth's brightest genius ? 

The night unveils the stars, and the gloom of Shiloh's thickest 
darkness reveals the country's brightest constellation. In that dark 
night the battle-storm is raging, a surcharged cloud flings a bolt, it 
pierces a soldier's hand, and reveals the hero's heart. There stands 
disclosed Wm. T. Sherman, the brilliant compeer of the country's 
greatest soldier, pointed out by the finger of Providence for the 
country's most arduous and perilous enterprise. 

THOMAS. 

But while the resistless Sherman presses eastward and coastward, 
draws his fearful coil about Atlanta, and feels for the heart of the 
Confederacy, there is need of a soul, grand in its own imperturb- 
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break the fury of the surging rebellicu in its western flow, and 
cause its most impetuous assault to recoil in overwhelming destruc- 
tion upon itself. 

The disasters of Chickamauga reveal the lion-hearted one, who 
alone arrests the progress of the enemy and saves the Army of the 
Cumberland, in the person of the noble and heroic Thomas. 

SHERIDAN. 

But in an offensive war, upon a vast scale, the theatre of which 
nature has defended by impassible rivers and inaccessible mountains, 
there is need not only of generalship, but of equestrianship. The 
exigency demands the bold trooper, the dashing cavalier, the winged 
horseman, whose elan bounds rivers, whose emprise scales moun- 
tains, whose dispatch gains time, whose celerity annihilates space, 
whose flaming enthusiasm fires his command with resistless valor, 
whose martial daring renders it, like himself, insensible to clanger, 
and whose startling swoop captures the keys to the enemy's strong- 
holds. 

But has nature united such traits ? Can Europe boast such a 
soldier? or does history record such a cavalryman ? 

It remains for America to produce him, for the rebellion to 
arouse him, for Stone River, Missionary Ridge, and Shenandoah 
Valley to herald to the world the most gallant and brilliant cavalry 
commander of the age, in the person of Phil. H. Sheridan. 

O. O. HOWAKD. 

But in our Southern land — the fairest portion of Freedom's in- 
heritance — slavery lifts its brazen front, and in the name of De- 
mocracy, and with the plea of State rights, claims the right to 
outrage every right of man. Slavery to secure its usurpation of the 
body, claims, as an incident, the right to put out the eyes of the 
mind, and legislates the slave into degrading ignorance, that it may 
the more effectually doom him to hopeless bondage. 

But "freedom to worship God," the birthright of every Ameri- 
can, and freedom to enslave man, " made in the image of God," 
are deadly antagonisms, and cannot co-exist. 

Slavery has instigated the great rebellion, and boldly fathers its 
fratricidal war. But, God be ever praised! the rebellion is con- 
quered, slavery is buried beyond the power of resurrection, and 
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majesty and might — whose thunder-tones reverberating round the 
globe are death-knells in the ear of tyranny — hushes the voice of the 
oppressor, and bids " four millions of oppressed go free." 

But where is the noble, faithful soul to assume the burden of the 
emancipated race, and act the guardian to the Nation's ward ? 
AVhere is the mind so lofty as to stoop to this down-trodden mass 
of ignorance and helplessness, and, by pouring in the blessed light 
of knowledge, lift it from indigence and want to independence and 
comfort, with the full consciousness of manhood's dignity and 
right ? "Where, in the bright constellation of heroes brought to 
light by the dark, dark night of the four year's rebellion, shall we 
find the Christian hero — the highest, noblest style of man — ever 
ready to lay his victorious laurels down at the cross of the meek 
and lowly One ? 

Fair Oaks points out the peerless soul, whose sublime patriotism 
interposed his own right arm to ward the blow aimed at his coun- 
try's heart, and Gettysburg and Sherman's grand campaign illus- 
trate the pure heroism and able generalship on the one hand, and 
the Christian fortitude and unostentatious piety on the other, of 
him whom Heaven designed and so eminently fitted for this especial 
work, in the person of the pure, earnest, generous, and much-loved 
O. O. Howard. The noble hero, whose tenantless sleeve with mute 
impressiveness shall ever speak to the Nation's heart, is surely 
most worthy to grace the Nation's Monument. 

JAMES S. WADSWORTH. 

But among our heroic leaders, the great and the good, to whom, 
under God, we owe the salvation of the country, there was one who,- 
passed the age of military service, owed the country no military 
duty. 

Turning his eyes away from a home of abounding luxury and 
elegant ease, he fixes his thought only upon his country's good, and 
stands up a noble volunteer*. 

A holier ambition than military glory animates his whole being, 
for not his country's aggrandizement but his country's imperiled 
life takes hold of his heart, and rouses to vigorous action every en- 
ergy of his manly soul. 

He postpones the proffered dignity of governing the Empire 
State to the self-imposed duty of serving the Union, and turning a 
deaf ear to the voice of New York, asking his consent to be in- 



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vested with lier highest honors, he listens to his country's calls in 
the darkest hour of her peril and need, and hastens to her rescue. 

Created Military Governor of the Nation's Capital, and chosen 
the bosom friend of the Nation's Lincoln, he forgoes this almost 
regal power, this high trust and honor, and impelled by the im- 
pulse of an exalted patriotism, he courts the hardship and priva- 
tion, the exposure and peril of the camp and the field, joins the 
" iron man " the Nation's chosen captain in the sraud and final 
" on to Richmond," and in the battle of the Wilderness plunges 
into the thickest of the fight, and to save the Nation's life he offers 
up his own. 

The world's annals furnish no more striking instance of a verita- 
ble impersonation of the sentiment — 

" It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country." 

The Nation's history boasts no nobler example of pure unselfish 
patriotism, and the Nation's salvation claimed no nobler sacrifice 
than that of Gen. James S. Wadsworth. 

LINCOLN. 

In the presence of Liberty's Protomartyr, the crowning figure of 
the Monument, we sit reverently and silently down. Abraham Lin- 
coln as the representative of the final triumph of a great principle, 
cannot die, nor will the fruits of his life nor the victory sealed by 
his martyr-death be limited to the land of his birth. 

As the telegraph thrilled the heart of the race with the shock of 
Lincoln's fall by an assassin's blow, the world felt that it had lost 
a friend, and the dwellers upon the Ganges, the Nile, and the Dan- 
ube, as well as upon our own Father of Waters, muttered indignant 
wrath against " the assassin fiend " Avho, in the person of the 
world's benefactor, had stabbed humanity itself. 

The first emotion is passed, and the race are in tears, orphaned 
is all mankind, and they of every land in their felt sense of grief, 
adopt the utterance prophetic, nor verified till now of England's 
chiefest bard : " Then you and I and all the world fell down." This 
is no fancy sketch. The letters and dispatches which, on the occa- 
sion of Lincoln's death, poured in upon the Government from the 
four quarters of the globe, show how dearly the race loved him, and 
how sincerely it bewailed his untimely end. 

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gize his memory and eternize his fame. Hear the eloquent voices 
of condolence and sympathy, of praise and eulogy, which have 
come to us from every civilized nation under heaven. 

England speaks through her Queen and Parliament, rejoresent- 
ing her Government : 

" It is my duty to convey to the Government of the United States the 
assurance that the Government, the Parliament, and the Nation are affected 
by a unanimous feeling of abhorrence of the atrocious crime, the assassi- 
nation of the late President Lincoln, and sympathy for the Government 
and people of the United States on this sad occasion." — Russell. 

House of Lords, through Lords Derby and Stratford : 

"In expressing our sorrow and indignation at the atrocious crime by 
which the United States have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate, 
your Lordships will only follow the universal feeling of sympathy which 
has been expressed from one end of the Kingdom to the other." — Berhy. 

** The expression of our sympathy, not confined to associations in every 
part of the country, now assumes the more solemn character of a Parlia- 
mentary condolence, confirmed by the unanimous consent of both Houses, 
and crowned by the gracious particif)ation of the sovereign." — Stratford. 

House of Commons, through Sir G. Grey and Disraeli : 

" From every part of this country, from every class, but one voice has been 
heard — one of abhorrence for the crime and of sympathy for the country 
which has this great loss to mourn ; and it is not only among men connected 
with the people of the United States, by origin, language, and blood, that 
these feelings prevail, bat I believe that every country in Europe is giving 
expression to the same sentiments, and sending the same message to the 
Government of the United States." — Grey. 

*' We bewail the catastrophe at Washington — we shudder at the means by 
which it was accomplished. In the character of the victim, and in the ac- 
cessories of his last moments, there is something which touches the heart 
of nations, and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind. In relation 
to President Lincoln all must agree that, in one of the severest trials which 
ever tested the moral qualities of man, he fulfilled his duty with simplicity 
and strength. In expressing our profound sympathy with the citizens of the 
United Sta,tes on the untimely end of their elected chief, let us unite in the 
fervent hope that that young nation, rich with the accumulated wisdom 
acquired in its perilous struggle, will be enabled so to renew its career of 
power and prosperity as to contribute to the general happiness of man- 
kind." — Disraeli. 

Lord Russel, in transmitting to this Government copies of the 
addresses of the two Houses of Parliament and the Queen's most 
gracious answer, adds that " the addresses expressed the sentiment 



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of the whole British nation on the deplorable assassination of the 
late President of the United States," 

England speaks through the press representing her people : 

" For Abraham Lincoln one cry of universal regret will be raised all over 
the civilized earth. 

" Abraham Lincoln was great not merely by the force of genius — and only 
the word genius will describe the power of intellect by which he guided him- 
self and his country through such a crisis — but by the simple natural 
strength and grandeur of his character. He seemed to arrive, by the in- 
stinct of a noble, unselfish, and manly nature, at the very ends which the 
highest of political genius, the longest of political experience, could have 
done no more than reach. He bore himself fearlessly in danger, calmly 
in difficulty, modestly in success. The world was at last beginning to know 
how good, and in the best sense, how great a man he was. 

" Reluctant enemies were just beginning to break into eulogy over his 
magnanimity and mercy when the dastard hand of a vile murderer des- 
troyed his noble and valuable life. 

"Abraham Lincoln lived long enough to accomplish his great patriotic 
work, and then he became its martyr. 

" The assassin's weapon has made sure for him an immortal place in 
history. 

" Nothing else was needed to sanctify the name and memory of Abraham 
Lincoln to the people of the United States, and to all lovers of freedom 
throughout the world, than this his martyr-death. Raised from the ranks 
of the common people to take upon himself the responsibility of the most 
gigantic struggle the world has ever witnessed between the forces of free- 
dom and slavery, he guided the destinies of his country with unwavering 
hand through all the terrors and dangers of the conflict, and placed her so 
high and safe among the nations of the world, that the votaries of despot- 
ism dare no longer question the strength and majesty of freedom." 

England speaks through her Universities : 

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. 

" We the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University of Cam- 
bridge, cordially share those sentiments of indignation which have been 
called forth throughout England by the intelligence of the sad catastrophe 
at Washington, and we beg leave to present to your countrymen this respect- 
ful tribute of our sympathy and condolence with them in the great loss 
which they have sustained, and the abhorrence with which we, together 
with the whole civilized world, regard the assassination of the President of 
the United States." — To Hon. C. F. Adams, d-c. 

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 

" We the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University of Oxford 
request you Excellency to convey to the Government and people of the 



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United States the assurance of our sincere condolence on the occasion of 
the appalling calamity which has recently befallen your country. The de- 
parture of the University on this occasion from its invariable practice will 
afford an additional proof, if any were required, of the strength and genu- 
ineness of the feelings which this atrocious crime has evoked from all classes 
and all shades of political opinions from the sovereign downward through- 
out the whole of the United Kingdom. Given under the common seal. "— 
To his Excellency C. F. Adams, &c. 

England speaks through her Dependencies, which girdle the en- 
tire globe : 

ASIA. 

BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, CALCUTTA. 

" This meeting desires to place on record the horror with which they, in 
common with all ranks and classes of her Majesty's subjects, view the assas- 
sination of the late Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, and the 
deep sympathy which they feel for the people of that country under the 
great national calamity which this event has brought upon them." 

MEETING OF RESIDENTS OF CALCUTTA. 

"Resolved, That we, residents of Calcutta, India, desire to add our testi- 
mony of respect and of sorrow to that which has been, and is now, being 
expressed ia various parts of the world for Abraham Lincoln, the justly 
honored and beloved President of the United States, martyred in the hour 
of his triumph for us and for humanity. 

"Resolved, That with our grief is merged a grateful satisfaction at the 
general outburst of sympathy which seems to come from every region in 
which Christianity has found a home or mission." 

AFRICA. 

MEETING OF MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONERS OF CAPE TOWN. 

"Resolved, That this board desire to convey an expression of the deep 
sorrow which the painful intelligence from Washington has inspired, of the 
profound sympathy with the great people who have lost their Chief Magis- 
trate, and abhorrence of the dastardly act which deprived President Lincoln 
of life." 

CAPE COAST. 

" We, the undersigned, representing the natives of this portion of Africa, 
as well as persons of the race residents here, desire to show, by the expres- 
sion of our sorrow for the death of President Lincoln, and our hearty ab- 
horrence of the manner in which that death was brought about, that we are 
able to appreciate the benehts that our race has derived from the events 
that have occurred during the administration of that great and good man. 
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mourn for the cruel and untimely fate of President Lincoln, whose destiny 
it was to be ruler over your mighty nation at a time when events took place 
having such immense importance for the children of Africa.'* — Signed John 
Aggom/, King of Cape Coast ; Quoio Attah, Chief of Donasie ; Koffer 
Afjadie, King of Anamahoe; Henry Arquah, King of Winnebah; Charles 
Bannesman, on behalf of the people of the eastern districts of the gold coast 
of Africa. 

AMERICA. 

QUEBEC, CANADA. 

*' The intelligence of the perpetration of the atrocious outrage by which 
the United States has been deprived of their Chief Magistrate has filled all 
classes of the community in this Province with awe and horror. 

" Immediately upon the confirmation of the sad news, I gave directions, 
in conjunction with the Lieutenant General commanding her Majesty's 
troops in this Province, that at all civil and military stations the flags should 
be hoisted half-mast high. 

" I shall feel much obliged if you will take a fitting opportunity of com- 
municating, on the part of this Government, their profound sympathy with 
the Government and citizens of the United States at the loss which they 
have sustained." 

^'Government House, Nassau, Bahamas. 

" The startling and painful intelligence which has lately reached us of the 
atrocious crime that has deprived the United States of its Chief Magistrate, 
has awakened here, as elsewhere in her Majesty's dominions, the liveliest 
feeling of detestation of the act and of sympathy with the nation. 

^'Resolved, unanimously. That this House has with deep regret heard of 
the act of atrocity by which the late President of the United States was 
suddenly deprived of life, and the House hereby tender to the people of the 
United States this expression of sincere sympathy at the calamitous event. 

" G. C. Anderson, Speaker." 

FRANCE. 

France speaks through her Government : 

" Department of Foreign Affairs. 

" The news of the crime of which President Lincoln has recently become 
the victim has caused to the Imperial Government a profound sentiment; of 
indignation, and I desire to ap2Drise you without delay of the sorrowful emo- 
tion we have felt, and in conformity with the will of the Emperor, to ren- 
der merited homage to the great citizen whose loss the United States de- 
plore. 

"In Abraham Lincoln force of character was allied with loftiness of 
principle, therefore his vigorous spirit never quailed before the terrible 
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" At the moment when an atrocious crime snatched him from the mission 
which he filled with the sense of religious dut}', he enjoyed the conscious- 
ness that the triumph of his policy was definitively assured. History will 
not hesitate to place him in the rank of those who have done most honor to 
their country." 

By order of the Emperor I transmit this dispatch. France will unani- 
mously take share in this thought of the Emperor. — De Shuijs. 

His Excellency M. Vuitiy, Minister President of the Council of 
State : 

Gentlemen of the Senate : In pursuance of the orders of the Emperor, I 
have the honor to communicate to the Senate the dispatch addressed by the 
Minister of Foreign afiairs on the occasion of the death of President Lin- 
coln — in uniting together to brand with reprobation a horrible crime the 
Emperor — the great bodies of the State, and France in its totality will give 
to the Republic of the United States a fresh testimony of their sincere sym- 
pathy. Mr. Lincoln placed at the head of the American Nation, had pass- 
ed through the most afflicting trials that could befall a government founded 
on liberty. It was at the moment when victory presented itself, not as a 
signal of conquest but as the means of reconciliation, that a crime obscure 
in its causes destroyed the existence of that citizen, placed so high by the 
choice of his countrymen. 

There can, therefore, be but one voice in this body to join in the ideas 
expressed by order of the Emperor in the name of a generous policy and of 
humanity. 

CORPS LEGISLATIF. 

His Excellency Roulier, Minister of State : 

Gentlemen : An odious crime has plunged in mourning a people composed 
of our allies and friends. The news of that odious act has produced through- 
out the civilized world a sentiment of indignation and horror. Mr. Abra- 
ham Lincoln has displayed in the struggle which convulsed his country that 
calm firmness and that invincible energy which belong to strong minds. 
After the victory he had shown himself generous moderate and conciliatory. 

The deep emotion and elevated sympathies which are being displayed in 
Europe are a consolation, and an encoui*agement, the Emperor's govern- 
ment has sent to Washington, the expression of a legitimate homage to the 
memory of an illustrious Statesman, torn from the Government of the 
States by an execrable assassination. 

" President Schneider — Gentlemen : I wish to be the interpreter of your 
thought in expressing the grief and indignation which we have all felt on 
learning the news of the bloody death of President Lincoln. That execra- 
ble crime has revolted all that is noble in the heart of France. The Empe- 
ror, the public bodies, and France from one end to the other, are unanimous 
in their sentiments of reprobation for a detestable crime, in their homage 



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to a great political character, and in their ardent wishes for the re-establish- 
ment of concord among the great and patriotic American nation. 

" Having been called to the direction of public affairs at an ever memor- 
able crisis, Mr. Lincoln has always proved himself fully equal to his difiBcult 
mission. 

" His last acts worthily crown the life of an honest man and a good citi- 
zen ; and let us hope that his spirit and his sentiments may survive him." 

France speaks through seventy-four of her Deputies. 

" Mr. Bigelow, Minister, &c. : In presence of the misfortune which has 
just fallen upon the American Republic, united from the bottom of our 
hearts with the American citizens, we desire to express to them our admira- 
tion of the great people who have destroyed the last vestiges of davery, and 
for Lincoln, the glorious martyr to duty." Signed by Jules Favre, Carnot, 
Blanc, Arago, and seventy others. 

The voice of the French press : 

" The Old and the New Worlds are mourning Abraham Lincoln's death. 
With the theory of providential men, we begin with Washington to end with 
Lincoln. It is because he has been devoted to liberty, even to martyrdom, 
that Lincoln is lamented in the two worlds, and that he has his appointed 
place by the side of Washington." 

'* Many of our friends, faithful interpreters of liberal opinion, call upon 
us to open a subscription to erect a Monument to Abraham Lincoln. Men 
like Lincoln, of whatever country, are the glory of their time ; but we be- 
lieve that in this case the initiative ought to be left to the United States. 
They will take it beyond all doubt. The Avenir National will open a sub- 
scription at its offices, and will subscribe its name at the head of the first 
list." 

"The horrible outrage committed in the United States has excited in 
France and throughout Europe a unanimous feeling of sorrow and indigna- 
tion. The death of Mr. Lincoln is a cause of mourning for all civilization. 
The last speech of Mr. Lincoln is a summary of generous sentiments. * The 
hope of a just peace-' A just peace ! That expression, which embodies an 
entire policy, might be engraved upon his tomb." 

" Yesterday, in the first moment of stupor, we doubted the news ; to-day 
there is no possible room for doubt. The President of the United States 
has been assassinated ! Abraham Lincoln is dead ! The destroyer of 
slavery has paid for his victory with his blood. His life revealed the vir- 
tues of the citizen, and his death makes him one of the greatest men of his 
time. He will be admired in history as the restorer of the Union, and will 
be likened to that great man by whom it was founded." 



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PRUSSIA. 

Prussia speaks through her Government : 

" The Royal Government is profoundly moved by the intelligence of the 
assassination of^ President Lincoln, and cannot forbear to express to the 
Government of the United States the sincere sympathy of the Royal Gov- 
ernment with the great loss that this crime has inflicted upon them." — 
Bismarck. 

HOUSE OF DEPUTIES. 

''To Mr. Judd, Minister, d-c: 

" Sir : W e, the undersigned members of the Prussian House of Deputies, 
beg you to accept the expression of our profoundest sympathy in the severe 
loss the Government and people of the United States have suffered in the 
death of President Lincoln, and alike the expression of our deepest horror 
at the shocking crime to which he fell a victim. 

" Sir, living among us, you are a witness of the heartfelt sympathy which 
the people of Germany have ever preserved for the people of the United 
States during this long and severe conflict ; you have seen how confident 
our faith has ever been in the final triumph of the great cause and the res- 
toration of the Union in all its greatness." — Signed by Dr. Frese, von Ka- 
then, Baron von Vairst, and two hundred and fifty others. 

MR. JUDD TO MR. SEWARD. 

"All the members of the Diplomatic Corps, the King's chiefest ofiicials, 
and many of the distinguished men of science and letters, have come to 
express their regard and condolence. As t^e details of the horrible crime 
become known, the interest and excitement in every circle increases. The 
public journals here and elsewhere are entirely filled with it. One intense 
and spontaneous burst of sorrow and indignation is ringing throughout Ger' 
many, and every one, high and low, is eager to bear testimony of his ad- 
miration and grief for a great and good man departed. Whatever may have 
been done in the United States, Mr. Lincoln is being canonized in Eui'ope ; 
a like unanimity of eulogy by sovereigns, parliaments, corporate bodies, by 
the people and by all public journals, was never before witnessed on this 
continent. The American people stand forth greater than ever in the eyes 
of Germany and Europe." — iV. B. Judd, Minister, &c. 

AUSTRIA. 

Austria speaks through her Government : 

'" The Imperial Government could not receive the news of this horrible 
event without the deepest indianation, and the crime ofwhich Mr. Lincoln 
was the victim has inspired the Government of his Majesty the Emperor, 
with the most sincere grief." — Count Meysenhug. 



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HOUSE OF DEPUTIES. , 

^^ Gentlemen : The news of the tragic fate which has befallen the Presi- 
dent of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, through a murderous hand, at 
the very moment when the cause of freedom and humanity was victorious 
has, I believe I may announce, deeply moved all circles and all classes of 
society in our fatherland. It well becomes this House which represents the 
population of Austria, to express its sympathy for the tragic fate of Abra- 
ham Lincoln who has risen out of the people to be placed at the head of 
the greatest State-" 

IMPERIAL LEGATION OF AUSTRIA. 

Mr. Secretary : I can scarcely find words to express my consternation at 
the news of the tragic event which deprived President Lincoln 'of his life. 
No one participates more sincerely tht,n I do in lamenting the sad catastro- 
phe that has filled the American nation with mourning. It is my painful 
duty, to announce the sad news to my august court* It will certainly be 
received with a feeling of afHiction, and the entire Austrian nation will 
sympathize deeply with the American people in their distress, for the great 
calamity which has overwhelmed them." — Wydenhrack. 

Mr. Motley to Mr. Seward. 

" Legatiox of the United States, Vienna. 

"The news of the great tragedy which has brought desolation upon our 
country reached Vienna on the 2Gth. I shall not even attempt to picture 
the consternation which the event has caused throughout the civilized world, 
nor to describe the anguish which it has excited in the heart of every loyal 
American whether at home or abroad." 

*' I know that one should avoid the language of exaggeration, so natural 
when a man eminent in station and lofty characteristics is suddenly taken 
away, yet I may venture the opinion that the name of Abraham Lincoln 
will be cherished so long as we have a history, as one of the greatest bene- 
factors to the human race that has ever lived." — Motley, Minister, &c. 

EUSSIA. 

Russia speaks : 

prince GORTCHACOW to MR. CLAY, MINISTER, &C. 

'^St. Petersburg. 
^'Mr. Minister: In informing you in the name of the Imperial Cabinet 
of the profound indignation excited by the assassination of the President 
of the United States, and the heartfelt sympathy which the American Govern- 
ment and people have met with among us in this their national grief, I was 
certain of having expressed the sentiments of his Majesty the Emperor. 
Scarcely has my august master returned to his dominions when he orders 
me to testify to you his grief at this painful event. The Emperor joins in 
the unanimous regrets which encircle the memory of the eminent statesman 
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career. His Imperial Majesty requests us to transmit, in his name, the as- 
surance of liis living and deep sympathy with the family of the late Mr. 
Lincoln. ' ' — Gortchacow. 

MR. CLAY TO MR. SEWARD. 

''Legation of the United States, St. Petersburg. 

''Sir ■ I know not how to express my grief for the loss of our great and 
good President Lincoln, and my indignation at the crime of which he is 
the victim. The ambassadors of France and England called in person, and 
those who did not do so wrote letters full of admiration for the virtues of the 
late President and horror at the crime of his assassination. His imperial 
Hi-hness the Grand Duke Constantine sent his aid-de-camp. Gen. Greigg ; 
He^'r Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Helen sent Baron Rosen, and his 
Imperial Highness the Prince d-Qldenburg called in person, all to utter senti- 
ments of sorrow and sympathy with the American Government and people 
Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Helen has invited me to call 
upon her informally, with a view of giving us further evidence of her kind 
feelin-s and admiration of our nation and its progressive cause. 

" These sentiments of esteem and sadness lead me to the hope that the 
martyrdom of our noble friend will, at home and abroad, consecrate in the 
hearts of all men the principles of liberty and self-government for wlmch 
Lincoln lived and died." 

SPAIN. 

Spain speaks througli her Department of State : up^iace, 

'' I beg to make known the sentiments of profound indignation which 
the sad events you announce have produced in the mind of her Majesty the 
Queen and in that of her Government."-!.. Arrazola. 

To the Charge, &c., of U. S. 

"Department of State, Bureau of Political Affairs, Madrid. 

"Most Excellent Sir : By her Majesty's orders, and for the instruction of 
the department under your charge. I transmit to your excellency copies of 
the resolutions passed by the Senate and House of Representatives sympa- 
thizing with the United States and deploring the abominable crime com- 
mitted upon the person of your worthy President, Mr. Abraham Lincoln. 
— Miguel Bannelos. 

PALACE OF THE SENATE. 

" The Senate in session this day has unanimously resolved that it synipa- 
thises with the United States in the profound grief caused by the death of 
its worthy President, Abraham Lincoln, "-/^au de Sevilla, Secretary. 

PALACE OF CONGRESS. 

" The House of Deputies ir. session yesterday unanimously resolved that 
it sympathises with the United States in the profound grief caused by the 
death of its worthy President, Abraham Lincoln. This we communicate 



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for the information of her Majesty's Government and subsequent action." 
— Rafael Chacon. 

" Pi-esidenci/ of the Cabinet of Ministers, Madrid. 

^'Sir : The horrible crime committed on the person of the President of 
the United States has caused a painful and profound sensation in the Spanish 
nation, which is united to that great Republic by the ties of a true friend- 
ship and a cordial sympathy." — The Duke of Valencia. 

The Charge, d-c, of U. S. 

DEBATE IN THE SENATE. 

'^Senators ; It seems just that the Senate should manifest, expressly and 
spontaneously, its profound sorrow and regret at an event as terrible as it 
has been unexpected — an event which has left on the minds of Senators, as 
upon those of all the civilized world, a deep furrow of execration. All 
peoples in both hemispheres rise with one voice to condemn the crime which 
has blackened the brilliant pages of that wonderful war just resulting in 
peace — and that peace owing to the efforts, the constancy, and the skill 
with which the lamented Mr. Lincoln has directed those events." — Count 
of Vistahermosa. 
The President of the Senate then said from the chair : 
" I am certain that the Senate authorizes me at this moment — and with 
the Senate all Spaniards of the provinces beyond the seas and of the pen- 
insula — to declare that the impression produced by the horrible crime com- 
mitted against the President of the Republic of the United States has been 
unanimous, and that we join ourselves to the manifestions which ihe civil- 
iczed world is now making on account of this sad event, desiring solemnly 
to make known the sincere wishes of Spain for the prosperity and peace of 
the American Republic." — Marquis of Duero. 

DEBATE IN THE SPANISH CONGRESS OF DEPUTIES; 

** When other Governments and Parliaments are making manifestations 
on account of this horrible event, it seems natural that in the Spanish Par- 
liament^n the Parliament of the Nation which, by Cuba and Porto Rico, 
is neighbor to the United States something should be said. 

"That country which has been great in peace has not been less great in 
war. In that war, perhaps the most gigantic which history recoi'ds, it seems 
indeed that, in order so immense a pyramid of corpses should be grandly 
crowned, it was necessary that the body of the President of the United 
States should fall by the ball of an assassin. " — Senor Lasala. 

The Preident of the Cabinet of Ministers said : 

" The Government associates itself to the motion made by the deputy, 
and would wish that the whole House and all Spain should manifest these 
same sentiments, not only because this is just, but also on account of the 
reciprocity of sentiments which ought to exist between the American nation 
and Spain. The abominable crime, of which the illustrious personage who 
presided over the American Union has been the victim, is a thing which 



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must wound painfully the fibres of all who have any seatiments of morality, 
and profoundly all those who have any political instinct. '^—Duke of Val- 
encia and Senor Clavos. 

SPAIN ANDALUSIA. 

' ' Jerez de la. Frontera. 
^^ To the Vice President : When the hand of the assassin put an end to 
the existence of the illustrious Lincoln, a sentiment of horror and indigna- 
tion seized our minds, a sentiment that springs from the bottom of the 
hearts of the freemen of Old Europe, and mingling with that of our broth- 
ers of Yoang America fills all tyrants with fear and dread. The emanci- 
pation of the slave is a glorious page in the history of free nations, and is 
now welcomed by the world with admiration and enthusiasm. It is expect- 
ed that the consequences of the great social revolution of which America 
is the representative will soon be felt throughout Europe and the world. " — 
Signed by Manuel Mayol and six others. 

PORTUGAL. 

The voice of Portugal through her King, and Parliament : 

^'Department of State for Foreign Affairs. 

" The Government of his Majesty has been informed of the horrible crime 
of which unhappily President Lincoln has been the victim. 

" So sad an event, clothing in mourning a nation over whose destinies 
that distinguished Magistrate presided could not but be profoundly felt by 
the Portugese Nation. 

" The part which his Majesty's Government in the grief which with rea- 
son oppresses the American Nation, and the indignation which that crime 
provoked, have led me to direct you, by order of his Majesty the King, to 
make known without loss of time and in the most express terms to the Gov- 
ernment of the United States the feelings of true sorrow with which our 
sovereign Lord and his Government are penetrated by so fatal an occur- 
rence. " — Condi JD'Avila. 

HOUSE OF PEERS. 

" Mr. Speaker : The House is aware by official documents that a crimi- 
nal event has plunged in grief and mourning a great nation on the other 
side of the Atlantic, the powerful Republic of the United States. 

"The Count D'Avila : I desire to speak on this incident on the part of 
the Government. 

" Mr. R. DaSilva : President Lincoln has been assassinated almost in 
the very arms of his wife. 

" The perpetration of this cruel act has caused profound pain in America 
and in every court in Europe. Every Cabinet and every Parliament have 
given vent to their deep feelings on such a painful event. It behoves all 
civilized societies. It becomes almost the duty of all constituted political 



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bodies to cause their manifestations to be accompanied by the sincere ex- 
pression of horror and profound pain with which they deplore acts so grave 
and criminal. 

" At the close of the first four years of a Government, during which war 
became his motto, the President of the Republic is suddenly struck down 
at the moment of his triumph, and his now inanimate hands let fall those 
reins of administration which the force and energy of his will, the co-ope- 
ration of his countrymen, the prestige and sublimity of the grand idea which 
he personified and defended, have immortalized. 

" This is no King who disappears in the darkness of the tomb. He is 
the chief of a glorious people, leaving a successor in every citizen who 
shared his idea. It is not a purple covered throne wlilch has been covered 
with crape — it is the heart of a great empire which has been cast into 
mourning. As the champion of freedom in America, Lincoln erased from 
the cjde of a free people that antisocial stigma, that blasphemy against hu- 
man nature, v/hich nineteen centuries of civilization, enlightened by the 
gospel, has proscribed and condemned as the opprobrium of the age. 

" At the moment that he castaway the chains of an unfortunate race — at 
the moment that the echo of Grant's victorious cannon proclaimed the 
emancipation of the soul and of labor— when the hut of the slave was 
about to be converted into the home of the freedman — at the moment that 
the stars of the Union, resplendent wiih the glad light of liberty, waved 
triumphant over a reunited people — he, the strong and the powerful, falls to 
rise no more." 

" Legation of the United States, Lisbon. 

"Sir : Every manifestation of respect to the memory of the late President 
Lincoln which could be expected or desired has been made by this Govern- 
ment and people, both in an official and in a private manner. His Majesty 
the King, immediately upon being informed, sent me the kindest words of 
sympathy and regret, and every member of the Government called in per- 
son to express similar sentiments. 

" While on this subject I may remark as quite worthy of notice, that the 
popular legislative bodies of the different States of Europe have taken the 
initiative in nearly all the expressions of public sympathy. Such a tribute 
towards our lamented President was not only most fitting, but the fact is 
significant of a mighty change in ideas and usages, as it is of a coming time 
in the near future when the people of Europe will claim the right to assert 
those great principles of political and personal liberty which Lincoln illus- 
trated so well, and for which he may be said to have made a sacrifice of his 
life." — James E. Harvey, tCc. 

A LISBON ASSOCIATION, AC 

'^ Sir : All the civilized countries, all the liberal men, are at present 
under the most affecting impression. The crime that struck with horror an 
illustrious people, worthy of universal consideration, was condemned by all 
those for whom the word liberty is the strongest chain that can unite them. 



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" From all quarters eloquent words are heard condeming the monstrous 
attempt by which the United States has been deprived of its most useful 
and distinguished citizen. To these eloquent words of Empires and Na- 
tions, of peoples and States, is joined the humble homage of the ' Centro 
Promotor," that shows the deepest grief when acquainted that Lincoln, the 
emancipator of the slave, fell a victim to the stroke of a cowardly assassin." 
— To James E. Harvey, Minister, &c. 

ITALY. 

Italy's voice through her Government, represented by her King 
and Parliament: 

LA MARMORA TO MARSH, MINISTER, &C. 

" Turin, 
"Mr. Minister: On receiving the official announcement of the assassina- 
tion committed on the person of the President of the United States, I has- 
ten to transmit the address which the Italian Parliament has voted to the 
Congress of the United States, in order to express to that body its senti- 
ments of lively sympathy, and the indignation which the execrable crime 
of which Mr. Lincoln has been the victim, has excited in Italy. 

" The King, my august sovereign and his Government fully concur in this 
manifestation, and I renew to you Mr. Minister, the warmest expression of 
the sentiments they have felt in common with the whole Italian Nation on 
this sad occasion. " — Alphorse La Marmora- 

"Honorable Sir: The announcement of the assassination of President 
Lincoln has caused a profound and painful sensation in the Italian House 
of Representatives. From every party a common cry was spontaneously 
raised of condemnation of the deed and of high commiseration and sym- 
pathy for the illustrious victim and the great nation of which he was the 

worthy Chief. 

" The riouse by unanimous vote has resolved that in sign of grief the 
national flag be clad in mourning during thr^e consecutive days, and re- 
quested me to express, in a special message to you, the great sorrow which 
Italy herself and all the friends of freedom and civilization universally 
share. The President of the House. "— (r. B. Cassinis. 

" To the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States 
of America. " 

ITALIAN EMIGRATION SOCIETY. 

"Ancona. 
" When the unanimous cry of sorrow ?,rose from every corner of the 
earth lamenting the tragic end of your distinguished President, and of ex- 
ecration against the authors of the atrocious crime. The Italian emigra- 
tion faithful to their principles of liberty, brotherhood and sympathy with 
oppressed nations, struck by such a misfortune, shared the common sorrow 
and covered their flag with black crape. 



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"Lincoln, the promulgator of liberty, defender of the rights of man the 

benefactor of humanity has been struck by an assassin's hand. Lincoln was 

N the true friend of humanity — Lincoln was a citizen of the whole world — 

Lincoln is a martyr to a holy principle." — Signed M. Urgolinucci and 

others, Committee. 

*' To Consul General of United States, Florence." 

GREECE. 

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ATHENS. 

"The infamous assassination attempted lately against the person of Mr; 
Lincoln, President of the United States has filled with horror and indigna- 
tion the whole Greek nation and the Government of his Royal Highness. 

" The death of a man of such high fame as the now immortal Lincoln is 
an imparable and common loss, felt not only by the United States but by 
mankind in general. 

You are solicited, Mr. Botassii, to express officially to the Government of 
the United Slates the deep sympathy and condolence of the Greek nation, 
for the disaster which has occurred, and you will add in your dispatch that 
we in Greece will pray that the United States may pass unshaken through 
this ordeal. " — The Minister Brailas. 

EGYPT. 

^^ Alexandria, Egypt. 

Sir : I have the honor to report that his highness the Pacha of Egypt has 
seezed the earliest opportunity to express to me the pain with which he has 
heard the sad tidings of the assassination of the President of the United 
States, his detestation of the abominable crime, and his sympathy for our 
country in the grievous loss we have sustained." — Charles Hale, Consul 
General. 

" To Hon. William H. Seward." 

MR.*HALE TO MR. HUNTER. 

" Consulate General of United States, Alexandria. 

" Sir: I have already in my dispatch reported the cordial expression of 
sympathy which his Highness the Pacha of Egypt hastened to make me in 
an official interview immediately after the sad news was known here. 

" I have since received, and am daily receiving other expressions of the 
public feelings of all nationalities represented here, in respect for the mem- 
ory of the late President. 

"A special religious ceremony has been ordered by the Greek commun- 
ity at the Greek church." — Charles Hale, &c. 

" To Hon. William Hunter, Acting Secretary." 



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TURKEY. 

Turkey speaks : 

HIS HIGHNESS ALT PACHA TO MR. MORniS. 

" Sublime Porte Department of Foreign Affairs. 

" Sir ; The Sultan my august sovereign has learned with profound afflic- 
tion the mournful news of the cruel death of President Lincoln, and I hare 
been commanded to convey to you an expression of the regrets of his Im- 
perial Majesty. 

" I need not state to you, sir, how much the Imperial Government, in ita 
character of sincere friend of the United States, is interested in their prosr 
perity, and how great has been the sorrow which this event has occasioned. 

"Be pleased, sir, to accept assurances of my high consideration. Mr. 
Morris, Minister Resident of United States." — Aali. 

" Bier out, Syria. 

" At a meeting of American citizens resident in Syria, held at the Con- 
sulate, it was — 

^^ Resolved, That we do hereby express our detestation of the horrible 
crime which has deprived our Nation of its Chief Ma ^istrate at such a crisis 
in ils history as the present, and our unfeigned grief and humiliation under 
this sorrowful dispensation. 

''^Resolved, That we do hereby unite with our fellow-citizens and coun- 
trymen, at horae and abroad, in expressing our high appreciation of the 
character of President Lincoln as a patriot, as a citizen, and as Chief Mag- 
istrate of the United States, and that as a mark of respect for his memory 
we wear the usual badge of mourning for forty days. 

" Resolved, That the United States Consul for Syria and Palestine be 
requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Department of 
State at Washington." — /. A. Johnson, U. S. Consul, Chairman. 



" Legation of the United States of America, Constantinople. 

" Sir : Upon the receipt of the telegram announcing the assassination of 
President Lincoln a universal sentiment of indignation and of horror for 
such a crime, against such a man as our late President, at the moment when 
he had saved the country and had won the respect and admiration of the 
world, was expressed by all the various nationalities of this capital. 

" I cannot be mistaken, for I feel it all around me in predicting that this 
assassination, be the motive what it may, will produce important political 
consequences throughout Europe, and will arouse and stimulate the friends 
of liberty to new efforts against despotism and arbitrary power. The assas- 
sin's hand has consecrated the life and death of President Lincoln. He 
fell a victim to the cause of liberty and human rights, and he will take his 
place ia history among the martyrs whom universal humanity honors as its 
benefactor." — E. Joy Morris. 



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CHINA. 

China speaks : 

PRINCE KUNG TO MR. WILLIAMS. 

" I had the honor yesterday to receive your Excellency's communication 
informing me that the President of the United States had been removed by 
death, an announcement that inexpressibly shocked and startled me. 

" I shall be pleased to embody the particulars connected with this event 
in a memorial to his Majesty, and thereby evince the cordial relations which 
now exist between our countries-" — Prince Kung, Chief Secretary of State 
for Foreign Affairs. 

MR. WILLIAMS TO MR. SEWARD, 

" Legation of the United States, Peking. 

" The telegraph brought the first notice to Peking via Russia in forty days, 
but nearly a fortnight elapsed before the further news arrived to induce us 
to believe that such a horrid deed could have been committed in the United 
States. 

"The limits of a dispatch will hardly allow me more than to add my 
tribute of admiration of the character of Mr. Lincoln. His firm and con- 
sistent maintenance of the national cause, and his unwearied efforts while 
enforcing ihe laws to deprive the conflict of all bitterness, were so happily 
blended with a reliance on Divine guidance as to elevate him to a high rank 
of successful statesmen. All the Americans in Peking alike mourn his 
death. 

" His name will hereafter be identified with the cause of emancipation, 
while his high virtues and untimely death render him not unworthy of men- 
tion with William, of Orange, and Washington." — S. Wells Williams, 
Charge DeAffaires U. S. in China. 



JAPAN. 

A voice from Japan : 

MR. PORTMAN TO MB. SEWARD. 

^^ Legation of ihe United States in Japan, Yedo. 
"Sir: Late in the evening of the 3d of July — the day of the arrival of the 
mail at Kanagawa — I received a message from the Gorogio, to the effect 
that several officers of rank wished to visit me on this day. I was accord- 
ingly waited on by the Governors for Foreign AfJ;iirs, with a numerous 
suite, who, in the name of his Majesty the Tycoon and his government, 
came to request me to convey to your Government and to yourself the senti- 
ments of profound pain with which they had learned of the assassination of 
Mr. Lincoln and the attack on yourself, and also their sincerest wishes for 
your speedy recovery." — A. L. C. Portman, Charge, Jbc. 



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MEXICO. 

^^ Department of Foreign Relations. 
<'ThP official confii-^natlon has been received that the Presiaeiit of tlie 
Uie omciai couui rlpnlnrable end of President 

TT„;f«fl Stales has been assassinated, ilie depioraoie enu ui 
Uniied states nas ue Government of the Mexican P.e- 

stJ °n , a„<l th.t all U,c .uLhori.ie,, f„„c,io„ar,e, and employee,, b th 
eWl a^d „mtar„ clothe themselve, in monrning dnr.ng n,„e du,s. - 
Lerdo de Tejada. 

PRESTDEXT JUAREZ TO MR. ROMERO • 

u The shocking intelligence of President Lincoln's assassination has pro- 
duced Ion us a very sad impression. That great misfortune has profoundly 
r n.P .s Mr Lincoln, who worked with so much earnestness and 

:"::! n 'fo the causTot nationality and freedom, was worthy of a better 
fate Chan the poinard of a cowardly assassin. "-Z^e.u.o Juarez. 
Senor Don Matias Romero. 

BRAZIL. 

^^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rio de Janeiro 
u It is my painful duty to tender to General Webb, in the name of the 
Gove nme^t of his Imperial Majesty, the expressions of the feelings w th 
1 VI iT finds itself overwhelmed. The Imperial Government w.di the 
:"st sev X coademns an act so criminal as the one which has for its 
V cm the Chief Magistrate of the Union, and it comprehends the mfiui e 
pain tl!u! h^flicted tipon American citizens, with whom ours so sincerely 
sympathise." -Jose Antonio Saraiva. 
To J W. Webb, Minister, etc. 

u The Chambers of Senators and Deputies of Brazil, uniting in the mani- 
ihe onaraue ^^^ ^^ ^j^^ l^^^ ^^1^^^^^ 

festation of sympathy winch tiab been caub tl,P ilbi^trlous President 

tlie American Union has suffered in the person of the illustrious res ue i 
Abr-H L ncoln, above all for the atrocious manner in which his existence 
t s tt:::^nated, have resolved to cause tj- -™-^P--- «^ ''-' 
sorrow to be presented to the Congress of the United States 

Congress of the United States-' '-Barbosa Da bdoa. 
To Hon. Wm. II. Seward, &c. 



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CHILI. 

" Department of Foreign Relations j Republic of Chili, Santiago. 

" Sir ; The Government of the Republic has been penetrated by grief as 
sincere as profound in receiving the melancholy intelligence of the crime 
which has ju;t snatched from the United States their Chief Magistrate and 
one of their most illustrious sons. 

" This sad occurrence is a just motive of grief not only for the country 
which that eminent citizen governed liberally and wisely, but also for all 
those nations which, like Chili, accompanied him with their prayers and 
sympathy in the cause of liberty and civilization. 

" President Lincoln is no more, but the beneficent results obtained under 
his glorious government will be sufficiently imperishable to imjnortalize his 
name. 

" My Government believes itself the faithful interpreter of the sentiments 
of the country in expressing its own ; and in offering through the medium 
of your Excellency to the Government and people of the United States its 
most profound sympathy and sorrow for the grave calamity with which that 
great Republic has been visited." — Alvaro Covarrubias. 

The Minister, &c.. of United States. 



' ) 



In his annual message to the Congress his Excellency, the President of 
the Republic of Chili, thus speaks: '* Nor have we been indifferent to the 
mourning in which the United States of America have been plunged by the 
death of their illustrious ruler, Abraham Lincoln. This melancholy event 
has awakened throughout the country and in the Government manifesta- 
tions of grief and sympathy as just as sincere." 

MR. NELSON TO MR. SEWARD. 

" Legation of the United States, Santiago ae Chili. 

" Sir : I know not in what terms to give utterance to the feelings of grief 
and dismay which overpowered me upon learning of the brutal assassina- 
tion of our great and good President. The effect upon the residents of 
Santiago and Valparaiso was sad beyond description. Strong men wan- 
dered about the streets weeping like children, and foreigners, unable even 
to speak our language, manifested a grief almost as deep as our own, 

" The liitendente called upon me and stated that he had been instructed 
by the President to tender his earnest sympathy in this awful calamity. In- 
structions were then issued that the American and Chilian flags should be 
drooped at half-mast from all the native vessels in the harbor during eight 
days, and on the following day minute guns were fired from the sloop-of- 
war Esmeralda. 

*' The flags upon the public buildings, those of the foreign Consuls, and 
of many private residences were also hoisted at half-mast. 



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*' The Congress prior to the delivery of the message of President Perez 
this afternoon ordered ihe flag of the Capital to be placed at half-mast." — 
Thos. II. Keho7i, Minister, d'c, United States. 

To Hon. Wm. H. Seward, &c. 



HAAVAIIAN ISLANDS. 

Si7' : I take this opportunity to assure you that it was with the deepest re- 
gret, that I learned the great bereavement which under such heart-rending 
circumstances has befallen the late President's family and the Nation. la 
this regret I am sure his Majesty, the King and his Government will par- 
ticipate."— >S. IV. F. Odell. 

" To Hon. William Hunter Acting Secretary of State, &c. 



HONOLULU. 

MEETING OF AMERICAN AND OTHER FOREIGV RESIDENTS. 

*' Address by Rev. E. Coricin : No wonder that so many of almost every 
clime and every nationality deeply sympathizing with our grief, are here 
■with us in the sanctuary to day. That thrill of anguish which every loyal 
American felt all along vender Continent as the sad tidings were borne to 
them that President Lincoln had fallen by the handof an assassin, has been 
felt no less deeply by every one of us. 

Our isolation from our fatherland has not changed our love of country. 
Not all the waves that roll between us and yonder far distant shore, could 
wash out ourpatriotic devotion to that dear land from which, for a time, we 
are voluntary ex'les, as not all those waves could suffice to wash out that 
crime which to- day causes a whole nation to mourn as they never mourned 
before. Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator of the oppressed, the chosen 
champion of liberty and law, died at a time and in a manner most favor- 
able for his own illustrious fiime, and as a martyr for liberty, his memory is 
most securely embalmed in the hearts of a grateful people." 



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CONCLUSION. 

But it were useless to multiply. We have heard from the four 
quarters of the world, and from the Islands of the sea, and the 
thousandth part has not been told, nor indeed can be. There is 
poured in upon us from all earth's peoples one vast eulogy of the 
life, and one loud wail for the death, of the immortal Lincoln. 

Thus have we seen the world in teai's over the grave of the mar- 
tyred one. But how shall we explain this most remarkable of all 
the facts that has ever transpired upon our earth ? This univermlity 
of grief on account of the death of a single man ? 

Ah ! the millions of the race, held down by the hand of tyranny 
and oppression in whatever form, athirst for manhood's birth-rights, 
behold in Lincoln the true representative of liberty and eq lality. 

The triumphant vindicator of all the high and holy inaliena- 
bilities which appertain to man, yea ! the world's glorious martyr, 
for the world's blood-bought liberty. 

In the light of the foregoing, and as the only true solution 
thereof, we now understand that the spirit breathed ou.t at Lincoln's 
death walks the earth unseen, chides the down-trodden of all lands 
with strange supineness, and bids the race assert its own God-given 
claim to all the rights inalienable of man. 

Its all-pervading presence has transmuted earth into an audi- 
torium, and its footfalls, though voiceless, as electric speech fill the 
world's great ear. 

Europe upheaves, her mighty heart is throbbing now, for Lin- 
coln's spirit moves it, and whispers, " Quit you like men — be free." 

The influence of his eventful life, and his strange martyr-death, 
have waked the world to thought. Europe, uprising, pays homage 
to America ! The Old World greets the New in language most 
unusual, and, with outspoken freedom, talks of a union modeled 
like our own — nay, in the very streets of London proclaims " the 
day at hand when the French Republic would be called upon to 
recognize her English sister." England, " whos3 morning gun is 
heai'd around the world," is soon to be a constellation of republics, 
and the uni^n of the States of Europe will verify the prophesy of 
"a world at peace." 



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Then let us be in haste, or the great upheaval over the water, 
warmed into life by Lincoln's tragic death, will anticipate us, and 
the United States of Europe, claiming Lincoln for her own, will 

build the Monument. 

S. D. WILLIAMSON, 

General Agent, &c. 
Washington, D. C, October 1, 1870. 



appendix: 



LIST OF PREMIUMS. 



^100 Donations or Collections. 

To each person who shall pay to the Treasurer or General Agent 
$100, and to each volunteer agent who shall collect and forward 
that amount to the Treasurer, this Association will send a copy of 
Littlefield's splendid life-size steel engraving of the bust of Abra- 
ham Lincoln. This is the largest line engraving ever executed 
upon steel, and is the best likeness of Abraham Lincoln extant. 

$25 Donations or Collections. 

To each subscriber or volunteer collector of $25 will be for- 
warded, at their option, either a steel or chromo likeness, one- 
third life size, of Gen. U. S. Grant, chromo of Gen. P. H. Sheri- 
dan, or Gen. W. T. Sherman. 

$10 Donations or Collections. 

Imperial photograph of Abraham Lincoln, or either of the 
Generals above named. 

$5 Donations or Collections. 

A stereoscopic view of the Monument and United States Capital. 

Each subscriber, of whatever amount, will receive from the 
Treasurer a splendid engraved receipt, printed from a steel plate, 
on which is a superior likeness of Abraham Lincoln and the auto- 
graph signature of the Treasurer of the Association. 

All premiums sent free of charge to the post-office address of the 
person entitled, upon request of the party filed with the Secretary, 
with evidence that the proper amount has been paid to the Treas- 
urer or General Agent. 

J. M. EDMUNDS, Secretary, 

Washington, D. C. 



U APPENDIX. 



REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND FIGURES ADOPTED 

FOR THE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. 



THE STATESMAN AND MARTYR — ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

The crowning figure, a colossal bronze statue, represented as 
signing the Proclamation of Liberty by which 4,000,0u0 of bond- 
men were set free. 

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MILITARY POWER OF THE REPUBLIC. 

General U.S. Grant Equestrian Statue. 

General Wm. T. Sherman do do. 

Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas do do. 

Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan do do. 

Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard do do. 

Maj. Gen. James S. Wadsworth do do. 

REPRESENTATIVE STATESMEN. 

Hon. Wm. H. Seward Pedestrian Statue. 

Hon. Salmon P. Chase do do. 

Hon. Edwin M. Stanton do do. 

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas do do. 

Hon. Thaddeus Stephens do do. 

IN BASO RELEIVO. 

The Firing on Fort Sumter. 

The United States Senate as in session. 

The United States House of Representatives. 

PHILANTHROPISTS. 

Henry W. Bellows, President Sanitary Commission. 

James E. Yateman, President Western Sanitary Commission. 

Geo. H. Stuart, President Christian Commission. 

REPRESENTATIVi:^S OF THE LOYAL PULPIT. 

Rev. Matthew Simpson. 
Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher. 



APPENDIX. m 

EMANCIPATION. 

Frederick Douglass, Representative of the liberated slave. 

ALLEGORICAL FIGURES. 

Time. 

Justice. 

Liberty. 

America — Representing the woi'k of woman in ministering to our 
country's defenders. 

A Soldier — Typical of the noble men who, uyi distinguished be- 
cause of their vast numbers, gave victory to our arms, and liberty 
and equality to our people. 



RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 

The actual cash receipts to January 1, 1870, were $21,724.32, as 
follows : 

Stanton fund $2,274 00 

Simpson fund 2,459 75 

Beecherfund 1,705 00 

Chase fund 1,950 00 

F. Douglass fund 300 00 

Stuart fund 100 00 

Grantfuud • 1 00 

General fund 12,934 57 

$21,724 32 

EXPENDITURES. 

Model of E. M. Stanton $2,000 00 

Model of M. Simpson 2,000 00 

Model of S. P. Chase 2,000 00 

Model of Geo. II. Stuart 2,000 00 

Model of H. AVard Beecher 2,000 00 

Current expenses 4,084 82 

• $14,084 82 

Balance in Treasury July 1, 1870 $7,()-}0 50 



OFFICKRS. 



lion. JAiNFEs Haklan, of Iowa, President. 
" J. F. Driggs, of Michigan, Vice-President. 
" F. E, (SprNNRK, District Cohunbiii, Treasurer. 
" J. ]\[. Edmttnds, " " Secretary. 



M^NAOERS. 



lion. Francis Thomas, of Maryland. 

" SiDNiiY Peru AM, of Maine. 

" Henry D, Cooke, of District C^ohunbia. 
Rev. Matthew Simpson, of Pennsylvania. 
Hon. Richard Yates, of Illinois. 

" Alex. W. Randall, of District Cohunbia. 

" Burt Van Horn, of New York. 

" Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. 

" Nathaniel G. Taylor, of Tennessee. 

" Frederick Douglass, of New York. 
Major General O. O. Howard, of Maine. 
Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, of Ohio. 

" John Conness, of California. 

" George H. Williams, of Oregon. 



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